Credits: 4. Grading scale: UG. Compulsory for: D1. Course coordinator: Jonas Wisbrant, Jonas.Wisbrant@cs.lth.se, Inst f datavetenskap. Assessment: To qualify for a passing grade the students must have passed the oral presentation of the Communication part of the course and participated in the lectures and passed the written presentations of the Technology in Society part. Homepage: http://www.cs.lth.se/EDA021.

Aim
To give the students a perspective on the effects of new technology, especially computer technology, on people and on society. Also to give the students training in written and oral presentations.

Contents
The course consists of two parts:

• Communication: Basic information searching; written and oral presentation such as technical documentation; report writing; electronic publishing; use of modern libraries and databases.

• Technology in Society: law (laws, computer law, Internet laws, ...); ethics (professional ethics, the responsibilities of the professional engineer towards society, toward customers and employers, toward colleagues, ...); environment (external environment, working environment, ...), report writing and oral presentations on different subjects.

Literature
Course material distributed by the department.